Cake decorating frosting - Smooth icing with buttercream icing
Here are the step by step instructions to smooth icing a cake with buttercream icing:
- Spread a generous amount of buttercream on the top surface of the cake. Smoothen with a spatula. For best results, hold the spatula lightly pressing on the icing and rotate your turntable without stopping until the top is really smooth. Gently move the spatula away.
- Next, take considerably large amounts of icing and cover thickly along the sides of the cake. Hold your spatula upright at 90 degrees and with the blade slanted at 45 degrees on the side surface the cake, rotate your turntable without stopping to smoothen the sides of the cake. Gently scrap off excess buttercream that has moved to the top of your cake, moving the spatula inwards to the centre of the cake. Scrap the excess icing off the spatula into a mixing bowl.
- Repeat the smoothening process for the top of the cake again. Make sure you do not exert too much pressure when holding the spatula to the surface of the cake, or else you end up scraping off all the icing on the cake as you rotate your turntable.
Given the thin consistency of the icing, it takes a lot of practice to master the art of smoothening this icing on cakes. However, if you are in a rush or if you are unable to get a satisfactory result, you can also use a triangle comb to make patterns on the cake.
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